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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. – Robert Morgan

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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